Welcome to the WBZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Been a lot of attention lately paid to Saturday Night Live, celebrating their fiftieth anniversary on NBC. The driving force behind the show was and continues to be, Lauren Michaels, who's the subject of the book Lauren The Man who Invented
Saturday Night by Susan Morrison. It's a brand new biography that takes us from Lauren's upbringing in Toronto, raised in a Jewish family, to his career as a broadcaster and writer for CBC Radio, his transition to Los Angeles, where he worked on Laugh In the Burns and Trever Comedy Hour and produced a series of specials with Lilly Tomlin. This ultimately brought him to the Saturday Night Live experiment,
one that has paid off big time. The author had full access to Lauren and many of the SNL cast and crew. Michaels has won more than one hundred Emmys and the fact that he's managed to hang on for so long is impressive. As the shrewd judge of talent respected by and feared by many. The book is Laurene the Man who invented Saturday Night and who certainly changed the culture, and that's the Book Club. WBZ, Boston's news radio